The SCIP Python interface uses the shared library of the SCIP Optimization Suite. Therefore you have to run
make SHARED=true GMP=false READLINE=false scipoptlib
from the root of the SCIP Optimization Suite directory. This will result in the creation of the directory <path/to/scipopt/lib> and the shared library libscipopt.so. You may remove the READLINE and GMP flags if these tools are correctly installed in your environment.
From within the PySCIPOpt directory, please execute the following command:
SCIPOPTDIR=<path/to/scipopt> python setup.py install
You may use the additional options --user or --prefix=<custom-python-path>, to build the interface locally.
PySCIPOpt requires Cython to be installed in your system.
The installation routine tries to generate symbolic links to the library directory lib as well as to the src directory of SCIP. In case of installation problems you should verify the correctness of the links in the directories lib and include.
You cannot use the interface module from within this directory. This is because Python will try to import the pyscipopt package from the local directory instead of using the installed one.